Tag: Slavery

December 21, 2024

Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery

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Free Download J.R. Oldfield, "Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0714644625 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.

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December 9, 2024

The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde Slavery, Language, and Ideology

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Free Download Márcia Rego, "The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0739193775 | PDF | pages: 203 | 1.4 mb
The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology is an ethnographic study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde, from its early settlement as a center for slave trade, to the postcolonial present. The study is methodologically rich and innovative in that it weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data from different eras with sketches of contemporary life-a homicide trial, a scholarly meeting, a competition for a new national flag, a heterodox Catholic mass, an analysis of love letters, a priest’s sermon, and a death in the neighborhood. In all these different contexts, Márcia Rego focuses on the role of Kriolu (the Cape Verdean Creole) and its relation to Portuguese-that is, on the way people live through speaking. The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde shows how, through the dialogic give-and-take of the two languages, Cape Verdeans wrestle with deep-seated colonial hierarchies, invent and rehearse new traditions, and articulate their identity as a sovereign, creole nation.

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December 9, 2024

Seeds of Empire Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

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Free Download Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by Andrew J. Torget
English | August 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1469645564 | 368 pages | PDF | 8.55 Mb
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders’ republic in North America.

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November 28, 2024

Through the Prism of Slavery Labor, Capital, and World Economy

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Free Download Dale W. Tomich, "Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy"
English | 2003 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 0742529398, 074252938X | PDF | 13,8 mb
In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery’s integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy through the "prism of slavery." Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy. The author explores how particular slave systems were affected by their integration into the world market, the international division of labor, and the interstate system. He further examines the ways that the particular "local" histories of such slave regimes illuminate processes of world economic change. His deft use of specific New World examples of slave production as local sites of global transformation highlights the influence of specific geographies and local agency in shaping different slave zones. Tomich’s cogent analysis of the struggles over the organization of work and labor discipline in the French West Indian colony of Martinique vividly illustrates the ways that day-to-day resistance altered the relationship between master and slave, precipitated crises in sugar cultivation, and created the local conditions for the transition to a post-slavery economy and society.

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